Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...

A coalition of anti-death penalty groups has united to end capital punishment state by state and just as U.S. executions are ...

Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

1) The death penalty will increase – not decrease – terrorist attacks.

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction. In an executive order he ...

They believe they are out there. That there are other Nebraskans who would like to see the death penalty repealed who are quietly waiting to see what happens in the 2008 session of the Legislature.

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